Yes!!!!!!!!! SPS Success with Leds! Come in and Share your Story!
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cFloor
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reef bloke
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Superb, great growth and colour. You use AI lighting yes?
One year of growth, August 2014 (month 3) to August 2015 (month 15)
Wazzel
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Thanks. Yes I do hydra52s. I ran one unit until June of this year. I got about 13 months out of the manufacturers reccomendation. Now I have two due to shading.
SeargentSlice
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Very good growth and colors Bro Gratz:beer:
Leopardshark
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Hello all. I'm interested in getting leds and I would like to ask you which led brand fixture is the most popular/best now?
Thanks!
Thanks!
personaly i like the ghl mitras 6200 over the radions, but both will grow sps with good color.
sahin
Ultimate Reefer
The GHL Mitras has not had the success I thought it would. I havent seen one tank in person that has nicely coloured up SPS under the Mitras. But I have seen plenty of tanks with really nice coral colours under the Radions...
If one is going pure LED's I'd say go for Radion or Hydra52's.
Mike de Leon
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I have a single halide with 4 T5's over a 90 gallon cube. Looking to add supplements on each side. Does BML have good par? Not sure if this is the right thread. I have had success with Razors and Reefbreeders before...
markalot
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BML is ok, I use the 20K multi channel fixtures and run the blue/violet channels for dawn/dusk and the white channel for adding a little shimmer during the day. With two 72" strips on either side of my T5 fixture I add about 150 PAR midway, mostly from the blue channel.
This is with just the BML strips on and sitting on the tank, with feet, over glass lids. I have them hanging now and while my fixture with 75 degree lenses still has decent PAR my 90 degree fixture is pretty bad. If you go this route and are going to suspend the lights I would use 75 degree lenses max, if not narrower.
Since you have halide you don't need the shimmer so I might look at something different, or look at their actinic fixture.
On a smaller tank I have a Reefbreeder Photon supplemented by a custom BML fixture on the front aimed back. Color is fantastic since I started dosing a little nitrate.
Mike de Leon
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Thanks. I am also considering adding a Razor for the dusk/dawn effect.
Bpb
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Fiji purple is NOT actinic. It's a true purple. Mixture of red and royal blue. If you look at the spectral plot it's got a nice bump in blue from 400-480 or so, and then a spike in the red range, giving it a pink/purple hue. Real actinic is focused in the 400-450 range. Violet =\= Purple
Really nice job.
